Brunei Darussalam: Shifting to a Hydrogen Society
If Brunei could shift from oil and gas to hydrogen, it could drastically reduce CO 2 emissions. This means that hydrogen could be a
Brunei Darussalam, being a natural gas-rich country has opened a hydrogen demonstration plant in western Brunei Darussalam with the support of Japan.
In terms of volume, if hydrogen cofiring at the gas-fired power plants has 60% efficiency, then Brunei will need around 20 kilotonnes per annum (ktpa) by 2030 in both scenarios. By 2050, the needed hydrogen will be around 230 ktpa in the BAU Scenario and around 200 ktpa per year in the APS. Figure 4.1.
With this assumption, as shown consecutively in Figure 4.1 and Figure 4.2, by 2050, hydrogen needs in cofiring power plants in Brunei would reach around 4.9 TWh in the BAU Scenario and 4.6 TWh in the APS.
By 2020, electricity in Brunei Darussalam was 99% generated by natural gas-fired plants, with the remaining 1% by diesel-fired power plants. In the rest of the period of the BAU Scenario, i.e., 2030–2050, power in the country is entirely generated by natural gas-fired plants.
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